Comments for Are CFL's Designed to Make Us Pay More On Our Power Bills? at http://atlanticfreepress.com , comment 1 to 4 out of 4 comments http://atlanticfreepress.com Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:57:54 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://atlanticfreepress.com/news/1/4876-are-cfls-designed-to-make-us-pay-more-on-our-power-bills.html#comment-7841 Found this excellent article when searching for something else. May be a bit late to comment now but just for the sake of truth I'll do so anyway. Vinche and Dorky are correct that utilities only charge industries for VA and not home owners. However, one of Europe's leading utilities said they are well aware of the poor power factor of most CFLs and other home electronics. They also said that if sales increase enough after the incandescent ban, they will have to raise the kWh-price to compensate! This means we ALL pay, whether we use CFLs or not. And without being informed! See my website for more information: http://greenerlights.blogspot.com/2009/03/3g-cfl-analysis-power-factor.html - Halogenica Sat, 25 Apr 2009 14:27:21 +0100 http://atlanticfreepress.com/news/1/4876-are-cfls-designed-to-make-us-pay-more-on-our-power-bills.html#comment-7346 Your monthly bill is based on watts, not on VA. Your CFL rated at 18w will cost you just as much every month as a pure resistor drawing 18w. If a device has a low Power Factor, then the current sloshing back and forth will be higher, but you don't care--you're only paying for the power consumed by the device. Please remove this article or get your facts straight. - Dorky Thu, 22 Jan 2009 08:19:08 +0100 http://atlanticfreepress.com/news/1/4876-are-cfls-designed-to-make-us-pay-more-on-our-power-bills.html#comment-6542 I have yet to see a utility that meters the power factor of residential loads. I have also yet to see a utility that bills in kVAh instead of kWh like you are attempting to show. In industrial facilities, the incentive to correct the power factor is because there is usually a surcharge for a pf lag of below 0.95 . Perhaps you should start looking into the poor pf of switching power supplies such as those found in computers? Imagine how much those would cost to operate based on your incorrect assumptions! - Vinch Thu, 16 Oct 2008 17:53:00 +0100 http://atlanticfreepress.com/news/1/4876-are-cfls-designed-to-make-us-pay-more-on-our-power-bills.html#comment-6055 is there a plug-in device that we can buy to replace the missing diode? - frankgarfield@verizon.net Sat, 30 Aug 2008 16:10:26 +0100